The Legitimacy of Citizen-led Deliberative Democracy

Caluwaerts, Didier; Reuchamps, Min

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“…Finally, in 2011-2012, Belgium witnessed a randomly selected assembly: the G1000, which remained completely citizen-led and extra-institutional. Hence, its political effects remained marginal in terms of concrete reform, even though its media coverage and quality made it a relative success (Jacquet et al, 2016;Caluwaerts and Reuchamps, 2018).…”

Section: Locating the Irish Case In Its International Context: A Shormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This change suppressed an opportunity for deliberation between the maxi-and mini-publics. The consultations in Canada and the Netherlands (Fournier et al, 2011), the online participation in Iceland (Bergmann, 2016), and the bottom-up agenda setting in Australia (Carson et al, 2013) and Belgium (Jacquet et al, 2016;Caluwaerts and Reuchamps, 2018) were important elements of democratization. The Irish case displayed a tendency toward reducing public input.…”

Section: A Top-down Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Citizens' Assemblies for Referendums and Constitutional Reforms: Is There an “Irish Model” for Deliberative Democracy?

Courant

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Among democratic innovations, deliberative mini-publics, that is panels of randomly selected citizens tasked to make recommendations about public policies, have been increasingly used. In this regard, Ireland stands out as a truly unique case because, on the one hand, it held four consecutive randomly selected citizens' assemblies, and on the other hand, some of those processes produced major political outcomes through three successful referendums; no other country shows such as record. This led many actors to claim that the “Irish model” was replicable in other countries and that it should lead to political “success.” But is this true? Relying on a qualitative empirical case-study, this article analyses different aspects to answer this question: First, the international context in which the Irish deliberative process took place; second, the differences between the various Irish citizens' assemblies; third, their limitations and issues linked to a contrasted institutionalization; and finally, what “institutional model” emerges from Ireland and whether it can be transferred elsewhere.

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Section: Locating the Irish Case In Its International Context: A Shormentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Top-down Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizens' Assemblies for Referendums and Constitutional Reforms: Is There an “Irish Model” for Deliberative Democracy?

Courant

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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“…The organising committee behind the G1000 which consisted of artists, academics and public intellectuals continued to convene after the G1000 itself was concluded. This became a platform to campaign for more deliberative democracy in Belgium, which was one of the driving forces behind the implementation of a system of citizens' assemblies in the small German-speaking community of Belgium, the so-called 'Ostbelgien Model' (Caluwaerts & Reuchamps 2018). Indeed, institutionalising minipublics demands ' a political movement composed of committed democrats who understand themselves to have an interest in [its realisation]' (Barber 1984: 263).…”

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The Derailed Promise of a Participatory Minipublic: The Citizens’ Assembly Bill in Flanders

Crombrugge

2020

Journal of Deliberative Democracy

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This article shows how the principles of participatory deliberative democracy can serve as a guide for the institutional design of minipublics, while also discussing the obstacles such proposals are likely to face in becoming realised in practice. It does so by discussing the case of citizen-initiated citizens' assemblies in Flanders, Belgium. This case represents an ambitious proposal that combined elements of petition, deliberation, public consultation and parliamentary deliberation to generate a robust deliberative system. Yet in the end it was soundly defeated in parliament. By studying the institutional specifics of this proposal as well as the macro-deliberative circumstances that led to its failure, this article presents a nuanced picture of the promises and pitfalls of institutionalising deliberative minipublics. It concludes with a call to 'deliberative activism'.

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“…Les premières sont largement dominantes dans ce sous-champ académique, pour plusieurs raisons. D'une part, étant donné leur implication récurrente dans la promotion et la mise en place de dispositifs délibératifs, de nombreux chercheurs mettent en avant des études quantitatives (Caluwaerts, Reuchamps, 2018), le plus souvent par questionnaires, afin de mettre en avant des résultats « scientifiques » sur les effets délibératifs engendrés par les dispositifs. De plus, ces analyses quantitatives ont l'avantage d'être relativement standardisées, donc faciles à comparer.…”

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Le tirage au sort au XXI e siècle. Actualité de l’expérimentation démocratique

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2019

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Alors que la crise du gouvernement représentatif s’intensifie, le tirage au sort est plus que jamais sur le devant de la scène. Après une ère de mini-publics délibératifs n’ayant pas réussi à susciter de changement politique systémique, une seconde vague d’expérimentations démocratiques émerge. Ces dispositifs, davantage empowered et institutionnalisés, s’hybrident avec des formes de démocratie participative, représentative et directe. Mais ils dessinent des dynamiques contrastées pour le futur, entre une radicalisation de la démocratie et une légitimation du gouvernement représentatif.

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The Legitimacy of Citizen-led Deliberative Democracy

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Citizens' Assemblies for Referendums and Constitutional Reforms: Is There an “Irish Model” for Deliberative Democracy?

Citizens' Assemblies for Referendums and Constitutional Reforms: Is There an “Irish Model” for Deliberative Democracy?

The Derailed Promise of a Participatory Minipublic: The Citizens’ Assembly Bill in Flanders

Le tirage au sort au XXI e siècle. Actualité de l’expérimentation démocratique

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